The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
Ko je človek z AIDS-om odpuščen iz odvetniške družbe, zaradi njegovega zdravstvenega stanja, najame majhnega homofobičnega odvetnika, ki je edini pripravljen spopasti se z nepravično odpovedjo in speljati tožbo.
Potem ko zakon in red ni kaznoval zločinca, se Carl Lee Hailey odloči vzeti pravico v svoje roke in kaznuje posiljevalca svoje 10-letne hčerke. V takem primeru je pričakovati, da bo oče deležen sožalja in razumevanja, a težava je, ker sta Carl in njegova hči temnopolta, posiljevalec pa je belec. Vse skupaj se dogaja v Mississippiju, ki je znan po rasističnem opredeljevanju in segregaciji. Situacija je še hujša, ker lokali KKK, ki ga vodi Freddie Lee Cobb, postaja vse bolj popularen. Ko Hailey za svojega branilca izbere Jakea, novinca v odvetniškem poslu, izgleda da mu ni rešitve. A Jake poišče nasvet pri svojem profesorju prava Lucienu Willbanksu. Kaj storiti, kadar je pravica slepa, zločinec pa uživa na svobodi? To je ključno vprašanje odlične kriminalistične drame, ki jo je ustvaril izkušeni Joel Schumacher.
With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, but, when it becomes clear that the mobsters might want to silence her for good, she sends Oliver abroad and tries to gather evidence of the plot against her, setting up a final showdown.
Idealističen mlad odvetnik prevzame primer staršev. Njihov sin je umrl, ker mu močna zavarovalnica ni hotela plačati oskrbe. Odvetnik odkrije več milijard vredno zavarovalniško prevaro.
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
Zgodba prikazuje 12-člansko poroto, ki odloča o krivdi čečenskega fanta za umor svojega očima.
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.
Seoul, South Korea, September 21st, 2008. Eight citizens, the first to intervene as jurors in the country's legal history, are randomly selected to examine a matricide case that appears to have been resolved due to the existence of apparently conclusive evidence.
Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love.
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
A juror on a murder trial begins to believe that the man charged with the crime is innocent — and that the real killer is her own husband.
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
Documentary about the jurors in a murder trial who handed out the death sentence to the defendant, and how their attitudes have changed 20+ years later.